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by Mark Pesce on (#4FPW1)
What on Earth are you playing at, Microsoft? Column The future often arrives looking like an expensive toy. From the first microcomputer to the latest self-piloting drone, these "toys" hide a larger truth: they're the canvas upon which our imagination plays, as we dream up braver, bolder visions. We think physically, with our bodies, and our toys help us get our hands around what we think.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4FPSX)
It’s not just a hosted version of the database, says the CEO Datastax Accelerate DataStax, the business built around the Apache Cassandra open source database, is creating a new system-as-a-cloud service using the platform.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4FPQR)
You probably won't ever get to go to space – but your name can NASA is giving you the chance to send your name off into space.…
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by Team Register on (#4FPQS)
When the agenda goes up, the tickets do too... Event Whether your serverless ambitions are AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, or Google Cloud focused, you should really join us at Serverless Computing London in November.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4FPNS)
No word if a trip through Manchester was scarier than atmospheric reentry Having spent the last 20 months being lugged around the UK, the Soyuz capsule used to ferry British Astronaut Tim Peake safely back to Earth is returning to London's Science Museum.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4FPFS)
No cybersecurity rules means networks are destined to be balkanized Analysis Chinese telecom giant Huawei – the most prominent target of the Trump administration's decision to declare a national emergency to protect American IT infrastructure by banning technology provided by foreign adversaries – on Monday received a reprieve that allows it to do business with US suppliers.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4FPB8)
Long story short: Models are ineffective, racist, dumb... Analysis AI experts, lawyers, and law enforcement urged US Congress to regulate the use of facial recognition technology during a hearing held by the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on Wednesday.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4FP4F)
Meanwhile, privacy advocates run screaming from news, trip, end up in hospital Comcast is working on a health device complete with motion sensors that will keep tabs on elderly or disabled people in their own homes.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4FP0E)
Safari tech ready to be ignored by online ad giants like all other privacy proposals Apple's WebKit team, which develops the plumbing beneath the iGiant's Safari browser, has proposed a way that online ads can be measured while maintaining the privacy of those browsing the internet.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4FNVY)
Snapdragon giant 'strangled competition' and forced others to pay unfair fees Qualcomm abused its monopoly on critical chip patents for decades, a US federal judge in California said on Wednesday in a decision with radical implications for the cellphone market.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4FNQ9)
Never say never as reseller veteran returns to reselling land with reseller buy Phil Doye, the former majority owner of Kelway who sold the business to CDW for $431m, is dipping into his cash pile to slurp public sector reseller SBL.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#4FNK4)
It's so confident, 2019 models are on the free repair scheme Apple has such confidence in the new MacBook Pro's reimagined butterfly mechanism that the laptop qualifies from day one for inclusion in its expansive keyboard repair scheme.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4FNEB)
Doubleclick complaint alleges Chocolate Factory's data handling breaches GDPR Updated Ireland's Data Protection Commission has launched a formal investigation into adtech giant Google over alleged breaches of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), potentially costing the company £1.12bn.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4FN9G)
Don't mind me, I'm just the thing you run your business on KubeCon Europe While customers gawped at the shiny bauble of Windows 10, Microsoft trotted out the 1903 version of its workhorse big brother, Windows Server.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4FN43)
War crimes trial takes a fresh twist The US Air Force has opened an investigation into a "malware" infection – which it is blaming on lawyers employed by the US Navy who are working on a war crimes case.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#4FMZ9)
NSA services switched on next Thursday. No not THAT NSA UK mobile firm EE unveiled a lineup of launch devices this morning for when it flicks the switch on 5G services in six British cities, with one notable absence: Huawei.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4FMV8)
Leaked staff memo reveals immediate halt to co-operation Updated Brit chip designer Arm has now severed its links with Huawei in accordance with US sanctions, depriving the Chinese smartphone maker of a crucial supplier.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4FMQR)
Elusive critter loves mashed potato, not so keen on scallops Compelling evidence for the existence of UK cryptid "the badger" has been recorded in the south-coast town of Gosport – and it appears to have a penchant for ice lollies.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4FMQS)
Docker: Hey, remember us? We've got Windows Server containers too! Kubecon Europe The ongoing game of tit-for-tat feature updates among the Big Three cloud players continued this week, with Google confirming support for Windows Server Containers at Kubecon.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4FMMV)
Might be some delayed gratification there, friends Pure Storage sales for its first fiscal 2020 quarter grew 28 per cent on last year, but losses were deeper than expected as those sought after large enterprise wins eluded an expanded salesforce.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4FMHQ)
Because all developers are special, afterall KubeCon Europe Darling of the OpenStack world Mirantis has continued its march into Kubernetes with a Bring Your Own Distribution support.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4FMF2)
Dodgy numbers, new kit verses old... neither side comes out well The machine-learning-performance beef between Intel and Nvidia has stepped up a notch, with the GPU giant calling out Chipzilla for spreading misleading benchmark results.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4FMD0)
EU experts claim US tech giants use funding carrot to influence findings Comment Facebook and Google used grants and other funding to academics and journalistic organizations to pressure a group of experts in Europe to water down proposals on fake news, it was claimed yesterday.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4FMAS)
KaaS and carry, friend? KubeCon Europe At the Linux Foundation's KubeCon this week cloudy services biz Mirantis gave some sneaky previews of its upcoming Kuberentes-as-a-Service product, a technology aimed at self-managing and provisioning multi-cloud clusters.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4FM8J)
DARPA eggheads want brain-machine interfaces that work at the speed of soldiers' thoughts. No further comment... DARPA, the US military's boffinry nerve center, is trying to fulfill the science-fiction dream of developing non-surgical brain-machine interfaces so soldiers can comfortably control weapon systems with their minds.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4FM6C)
Cash for horizontal launchers and PowerPoint slides The UK Space Agency has flung open the doors on a mighty £2m fund aimed imbuing Blighty with spaceflight capabilities.…
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by Chris Williams on (#4FM3Y)
Vulnerability can be exploited to turn users into system stars, no patch available yet A bug-hunter who previously disclosed Windows security flaws has publicly revealed another zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft's latest operating systems.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4FKYE)
The May 2019 update is out and it's optional, for a while Microsoft on Tuesday released Windows 10, version 1903, aka the May 2019 Update, without forcing it on folks.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#4FKW9)
Biz app login details encrypted at rest, though, ad giant insists Google admitted Tuesday its paid-for G Suite of cloudy apps aimed at businesses stored some user passwords in plaintext albeit in an encrypted form.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4FKJD)
Sorry state of documentation baffles programmers as iGiant launches new MacBook Pros, promises better keyboards Apple developers are becoming increasingly vocal about their displeasure with the state of the iGiant's programmer documentation, which they depend upon to craft iOS and macOS software.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4FKJF)
Persistence pays off for online super-souk, but not for South American states Analysis It's taken seven years but online mega-mall Amazon will finally get its hands on the .amazon top-level domain name.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4FKEH)
Touts 'vast improvements' in performance with 1.0 release The shadow of Microsoft loomed large over Kubecon with the version 1.0 release of its serverless container tech, Virtual Kubelet.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4FJZX)
Microsoft pushing standard for new containery hotness Microsoft took to the stage at Kubecon in Barcelona today to push its take on the proliferation of mesh technologies that have sprung up around the container-happy tech.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4FJZZ)
Memo warns of regime having access to American data – remind you of anything? A US government agency has claimed drones pose a threat to national security in an echo of its wider campaign against all things Chinese.…
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by Jude Karabus on (#4FJVC)
Scottish Virgin Media users also down and out after lunch Updated UK mobile operator EE has been struggling to get its VoLTE services back on their feet, after a seven-hour flood of angry complaints from customers unable to place voice calls over the 4G network.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#4FJPF)
Plus: Fujitsu and Veeam hook up, cloudy IBM upgrade, Iguazio on Azure, and more Storage roundup It's a garage sale of storage info this morning, including faster IBM object storage, Rubrik hiring a Google veteran, Nakivo backup supporting Nutanix AHV systems and much, much more.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4FJGR)
How do open-source projects play nicely? They get off Twitter Something odd happened at Kubecon 2019. Rather than snipe at each other from the safety of Twitter, two very similar open-source projects opted to pool their ideas into one: OpenTelemetry.…
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by Richard Currie on (#4FJBZ)
Come for the enterprise tech, stay for the tortured puns Most of us not fortunate enough to dwell in gated manors in the countryside hive to endure a simple truth – noisy neighbours can bee annoying. One Spanish couple had 80,000 of them, living in their bedroom wall.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#4FJ88)
Cheapskate fandroids get a pass on this one, though Your iPhone can be uniquely fingerprinted by apps and websites in a way that you can never clear. Not by deleting cookies, not by clearing your cache, not even by reinstalling iOS.…
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by John Oates on (#4FJ4A)
Customers shocked to find swathes of data deleted CrashPlan has banned a bunch of file formats from its online backup system aimed at small businesses.…
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by Richard Speed on (#4FJ1P)
Putting the 'blue' in blue moon Part two As you sup your evening pint or enjoy some lunchtime refreshment, depending on your timezone, cast your mind back 50 years to when Apollo 10 did the "everything" part of "everything but land" and nearly ended NASA's lunar ambitions for good.…
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by John Oates on (#4FHXN)
Why random plans made in pub shouldn't always be acted upon Three men we can safely call geeks are looking for help to restore an IBM 360 mainframe they rescued from a soon-to-be-demolished factory in Germany.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4FHVS)
New convolutional neural network did just as well as radiologists in clinical settings Deep learning algorithms can help doctors predict a patient’s risk of lung cancer, according to fresh research published on Monday.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4FHSE)
But not Bain; Bain is there for the long haul Silicon printer Toshiba Memory Holdings is reportedly planning to buy out major shareholders including Apple, Dell, Kingston and Seagate, as it prepares to try its luck in the public markets.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#4FHH2)
Temporary General License buys time for Chinese tech giant, customers, suppliers The US government on Monday gave Huawei temporary permission to obtain technology from American organizations so that the Chinese giant can continue to maintain and repair existing deployments of its products around the world, and push US-sourced software updates to people's phones.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4FHDR)
Cyber-cabbies bag more dosh from fares by gaming demand versus supply Analysis Drivers for ride-hailing apps Lyft and Uber have organized for better pay through collective action – and not by unionizing.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4FH3Z)
Republican Senator preps proposed legislation ahead of hearing Analysis New legislation that would put teeth into the web's Do Not Track option for internet users, by fining companies that ignore it, will be introduced this week in the US Senate.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#4FH40)
American tech regulation reduced to: If the telcos want it, it must be a good thing Analysis America's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is likely to approve a controversial $26bn merger between the third and fourth largest US mobile carriers, T-Mobile and Sprint, sparking claims of regulatory inconsistency and coziness with the mobile industry.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#4FGZX)
El Reg tunes into customer conference calls to hear SVP of engineering apologize Three days on, Salesforce.com has yet to fully recover from an outage that began on Friday.…
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by Max Smolaks on (#4FGWF)
But what is the significance of lower clock speeds? Benchmarks of engineering samples of AMD's second-generation Zen-based server processor silicon, codenamed Rome, have once again found their way online.…
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